Bad Siding Lawsuit

The biggest such deal involving louisiana pacific and its inner seal brand of pressed wood flake siding has cost the portland based company about 500 million so far and claims are still coming in.

Bad siding lawsuit.

Regardless of the maintenance nearly all lp siding installations i look at from this era have failed at least certainly to some degree. This proposed class action settlement covers the entire united states. The class action is over. This class action lawsuit claims that james hardie building products produces and sells exterior fiber cement siding that fails prematurely.

The plaintiffs seek to represent all homeowners whose home was built with james hardie fiber cement siding and who seek compensation for repair costs and other damages from the siding. The class action was open to anybody with this siding on their homes that was installed prior to 1 1 96 and that siding is damaged or becomes damaged prior to 1 1 2003 and did not opt out during the opt out period. The siding had typical swelling at the edges and was clearly delaminating. Georgia pacific hard board siding had two products.

This involved jarrett siding that was manufactured at the jarratt va plant between 1979 and 1987 only. Lp s inner seal siding was the subject of a class action lawsuit. Between 1985 and 1995 800 000 homes were sided with a louisiana pacific lp product called inner seal that sparked one of the largest class action lawsuits in history after the siding began to fail. Certainteed corporation and representatives of owners of buildings on which the siding had been installed reached a proposed class action settlement.

It s too late to be part of the class action suit. My opinion is and always has been that swelled recalled moisture compromised lp siding should be replaced. Weyerhaeuser becomes the latest siding maker to settle a multimillion dollar product liability lawsuit. Georgia pacific stopped making siding at that plant in 1987 because it did not meet expectations.

The settlement for that lawsuit has been paid so if you are reading this you have missed the opportunity to file a claim. The class action suit agains louisiana pacific is over. Why are lawsuits being filed. In the most severe cases the siding reportedly breaks and falls off the property.

In addition to allegations of product defects plaintiffs also claim the life expectancy of the product is less than 50 years despite the fact that james hardie widely advertised a 50 year warranty for the siding. Louisiana pacific hardboard siding. The problem with lp s inner seal generally is that it fails where exposed to the weather.